H. Repton having for many years (merely as an amusement) studied the picturesque effect resulting from the art of laying out ground , has lately been advised by many respectable friends ... to enlarge his plan, and pursue professionally his skill in landscape-gardening.

A dialogue upon the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire

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H. Repton having for many years (merely as an amusement) studied the picturesque effect resulting from the art of laying out ground , has lately been advised by many respectable friends ... to enlarge his plan, and pursue professionally his skill in landscape-gardening.

A dialogue upon the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire